Komboloi museum

The Komboloi Museum, Nafplio: A Complete Guide to the World’s Only Worry-Bead Museum

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Four komboloi worry beads of different materials

The Komboloi museum in Nafplio is the only museum in the world devoted to worry beads, the komboloi that Greeks traditionally handle to relax and pass the time. Set in a two-storey house on the taverna street of Staikopoulou in the old town, it holds a collection of hundreds of old worry beads and prayer … Read more

Nafplio Museums: The Complete Guide to the Town’s Collections

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Bronze Age collections in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio

For a small town, Nafplio has a remarkable range of museums, from the great Archaeological Museum on Syntagma Square to the award-winning folklore collection, the unique worry-bead museum and the war museum in the old military school. Between them they cover the prehistoric and Mycenaean Argolid, the traditional life and costume of the Peloponnese, the … Read more